OH YA! It looks like they shall win! But by how much?... Discuss

Woo, the moderate communists won

Boo.

COMMUNISM

Conservative minority.

Looks like we will be voting again in a few months, but at least Alberta will have government representation for a while.

I was hoping for Liberals, oh well, at least itll make life interesting.

yay canada?

Flights to Canada fly out of the domestic terminal at the SF airport.

i put a thousend tigers apund ur head

shankitty shank shank.

Exactly what we need, more extremist right wing conservativism on this side of the map.

*sigh*

they won't last

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Exactly what we need, more extremist right wing conservativism on this side of the map.

*sigh*[/QUOTE]You have no idea what you're talking about.

Canada is entirely more liberal than the United States. Canadian Conservatives are liberal moderate by American standards.

And don't confuse your country's absurd neoconservatism for actual conservatism.

[QUOTE=Connection Problem]they won't last[/QUOTE]Maybe, maybe not. The Conservatives have finally tweaked their platform so it's appealing to Ontario. Meanwhile, the Liberals have always focused on winning votes in Ontario and Quebec. There's a reason Alberta doesn't vote for them.

The only reason you don't hate them is because the Liberal party does everything for you and your vote is for sale.

Here is a diagram of how Liberals generate political power.

Similar to how the flow of electrons is called "current", and results in electrical power, the flow of money results in "political power". Ordinarily political power tends to return to a grounding state, but the Liberal party siphons power off of the exchange.

And Paul Martin's wallet is like entropy. Get it? Haha, Canada is wonderful. Also: I hate people who live in Toronto.

Hey, I only live in Toronto because I go to school here.

If your conservatives are like our liberals, then what is the Canadian liberal party like by USA standards? (full-out communist, maybe?)

Yes. And the NDP is Rage Against the Machine, except they can't play music.

:p

1) Telling me I have no idea what I'm talking about isn't a good argument.
2) Canada IS more liberal, but from what I've heard about this guy...he's the Canadian version of GW. Not something we need (even though Canada's not in any real position to do anything militarily. Yes, I know they have the oil, but that has nothing to do with a military).
3) I never confused "my country's absurd neoconservatism for actual conservatism." We don't need ANY conservatism in our country at the moment, period. We need liberals to set straight policies good ol' GW set in place for our domestic issues, we need them to calm down the military and scale back the...uh... "war effort". We need them to even out everything good ol' Georgey's done. What we don't need is for someone to encourage Jr. here in what he's doing, which is what I gathered this fellow will do. He needs to take a few steps down on the military ladder, not up.

PS--Bush is a "neoconservatist", but that doesn't mean that his ideals aren't purely conservative. It just means he spends way too much to accomplish said ideals.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]1) Telling me I have no idea what I'm talking about isn't a good argument.[/QUOTE]

Ze irony.

I was mainly making light of the situation. I do it all the time :p

Holy crap, I think its the apocolypse, but I actually have to agree with Yoshi and...like that he is liberal...or at least...wow I dunno what the hell to think.

I need a drink.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]2) Canada IS more liberal, but from what I've heard about this guy...he's the Canadian version of GW. Not something we need (even though Canada's not in any real position to do anything militarily. Yes, I know they have the oil, but that has nothing to do with a military).[/QUOTE]Right, you think this because you don't understand how the Canadian government works. "You don't know what you're talking about."

Harper has a minority government. That means he needs the support of political candidates from other parties in order to set policy. Even if he were "the Canadian version of GW" he wouldn't be able to create unpopular laws.

Right now the Conservative party is interested in demonstrating what they can do. Their actions over the next couple of years will be conservative (gee wonder where that word came from) and not radical. We'll see slight adjustments and tweaking, and likely a lot of community or province-oriented improvements. We can expect the Liberal party to slap down all of their bills, making the actual decision up to (largely) the NDP (economic socialists) and the Bloq Quebecoic (Social conservative Quebec First party).

To reiterate: Even if the Conservative party did have an extreme radical neoconservative platform, they would never be allowed to implement it and even trying would guarantee that nobody would ever vote for them again.

Yosh, the Canadian system has more than two parties, very much like France, where the party with the largest number representives gets the Prime Minister position. However, the largest number could be 25% of the pariliment, which is nowhere near majority, so it takes a lot more cooperation between similar parties to get some things done.

Jon'C, i think your little picture there is a little skewed. you should put a disclaimer there that it is not to scale.
alberta may be a rich province but toronto sustains canada and it's economy much more than any other centre in the country
and that means you should not only bow to us, but you should love us too. LOVE US!!!

i give the conservatives 2 years.

[QUOTE=Darth Evad]toronto sustains canada and it's economy much more than any other centre in the country.[/QUOTE]
That's nice.

Alberta would be better off without you.

oh ok

ooo... looks like Jon'C is pissed off.

i think the political power from alberta in the past few years has been huge. how do you have the leader of the opposition party from alberta and have no political power? especially since all he did, while representing alberta, in the past 18 months is make himself look like a fool (more than usual) by causing such a ruckuss in parliament so as to shut it down for the day. when you can shut down parliament for the day by shouting and calling people names, that means you have lots of power. the power to bring the nations government to a standstill.
therefor alberta has had incredible power in the past few years and especially in the past 18 months.

and with mr klein making alberta look really good many people look to their leaders in their provinces and ask, 'why can't you do that?'

maybe you should contact you're mp and tell them you have no faith in them because with all that they've done in and for alberta you still think they don't make a difference.

poor you.

Jon'C just Godwinned the thread. Good job.

Also, the Conservatives won. What are you still whining about?

And the green party is just... lost.

"Ok, we got elected most seats. Um, now what?"

I smell parliamentary gridlock.

I'm just soooo ****ing glad we got rid of Pierre Pettigrew. If he would have gotten re-elected here I would have had to punch him in the throat.

Woot, I wasn't the only one feeling that way about Pettigrew!

I voted against him.

I made an extra box with Me writen beside it and checked it. <.<

JEPMAN FOR PRIME MINISTER!!

Who's Pettigrew and why does he suck?

(Now ex-) Minister of Foreign Affairs.

http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/articles/ftaa/pett030207.htm

Interesting. I heard Paul Martin was in a big corruption scandal, so a change probably could clean things. Then again, I don't know much if the change from liberal to conservative control (which from what I understand isn't much of change because of minority presence) is a good thing or bad.

Go conservatives!

Boo.

Jon'C should have won the election. Because his chart is awesome.

It's good the Lib's are out, but the Cervs' have had a pretty bad track record when it comes to running Canada. Heres hope that they don't **** up again.

They've never run Canada before. This is a new party, based more on the Reform party than it is on the Progressive Conservatives.

I also vote that we should, henceforth, refer to the Conservative Party of Canada by the term "Katamari Party".